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Elul 5774 - Tishrei/Cheshvan 5775 A Publication of the Columbia Jewish Federation www.jewishcolumbia.org Lyssa Harvey Named Steve Terner Distinguished Service Award Honoree JewishMy CampColeman experience First off, I would like to tell you about my summer at camp Coleman. My tsofim Scholarshipyear would have to be my favorite yearFund out of all my 5 years going away to this summer camp. I loved my counselors, Ryan and Eric. They were athletic, funny and DSA Reception October 30 For childrennice and to my young bunkmates adults, and me. Someovernight of my favorite activities to do at camp were Jewish summerUltimate camp Frisbee withexperiences my cabin, ropes are course among and Friday night services. I even The Columbia Jewish Federation is the strongestparticipated influences in one! At laston IJewish would love identity; to thank you again for giving me a proud to announce that Lyssa Harvey has however, thescholarship overnight to camp yearcamps after yecanar. I ambe very grateful to you. been selected to receive the 2014 CJF expensive. To alleviate some of the burden, Distinguished Service Award. the Columbia Jewish Federation established the Lyssa Harvey Ed.S. is a teacher, therapist Steve Terner Jewish Camp ScholarshipSincerely, Fund. and an artist. She is a Licensed Professional Thanks to the generosity of donors,Daniel thej. Tedeschi fund Counselor and owner of The Art and Play provided supplemental funding for 11 youths Therapy Center of South Carolina. Her private to participate in Jewish overnight camps this practice focuses on counseling children, summer. Over the new few issues of the Jewish adolescents and families. Lyssa graduated from News, scholarship recipients will share their the University of Georgia and completed her camp experiences. Masters in Art Therapy at The Hertsfordshire University in England and her Ed.S in Counseling at the University of South Carolina. Lyssa is My Coleman a National Provider for the American Play Therapy Association and is a S.C. Department Experience of Labor and Licensing provider for Licensed First off, I would Professional Counselors. In her capacity as a like to tell you about supervisor for Licensed Professional Counselors, my summer at camp Lyssa has credentialed over 50 therapists for Coleman. My tsofim year the State of South Carolina in the last 15 years. would have to be my Lyssa’s interest in helping children and favorite year out of all individuals with special needs led her to my five years going away to this summer camp. I loved my counselors, Ryan and Eric. They were athletic, funny, and nice to my bunkmates and me. Some of my Photo courtesy of Jay Browne favorite activities to do at camp were Ultimate

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Permit No. 48 develop Art and Play Therapy programs in Columbia, S.C. Non-Profit Org. Richland School District I, Palmetto Baptist and last I would love to thank you again for giving Richland Hospitals, and The Palmetto Richland me a scholarship to camp year after year. I am Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood very grateful to you.My Camp Coleman Experience Disorders, where there is now a permanent Sincerely, Art Therapy exhibit entitled The Children Daniel J. Tedeschi of Hope. She has served on the Edventure Children’s Museum task force to develop programs for children with special needs. My Camp Lyssa was appointed by Governor Hodges to serve as the Second District Commissioner for Coleman the SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs from 2001-2006. She worked with the Experience SC Arts Commission to develop a statewide To the CJF, arts program called Caring Colors for adults Thank you vey much with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease and for the scholarship to provide Arts and Accessibilities training to go to my second throughout S.C. Lyssa has recently created home, Camp Coleman. The Shalom Art Project, which is a community During this summer I mural project. Many different groups have went camping, caving, white-water rafting, I participated, such as the Wounded Warrior cheered my heart (and voice) out in MAC, I got Program at Fort Jackson, The USC Dance Super Sloppy, and I had the best month of my Marathon, and the Young Adult Division of the life. There’s nothing you can’t do at Coleman! CJF, creating murals that are hanging on walls They have everything: archery, the pool, the in Columbia agencies and care facilities. Lyssa lake, a ropesTo course, the CJF, every sport imaginable, has presented at state and national conferences dance, drama,Thank drumming, you vey much cooking, for the andscho larshipso much to go to my second on Creativity and Counseling Children through more! I had an amazing time. And thank you Art and Play. again for helpinghome, meCamp to Coleman. go to one During of the this bestsummer I went camping, places on Earth.caving, I [am] white-water eternally rafting, grateful. I cheered my heart (and voice) out in MAC, I got Super Sloppy, and I had the best month of my

Columbia Jewish Federation Arnold Jewish Community Campus Gerry Sue & Norman 306 Flora Drive Columbia, S.C. 29223 REQUESTED RETURN SERVICE Continued on page 6 Sincerely, Louis Tedeschilife. There’s nothing youPage can’t do 1 at Coleman! They have everything: archery, the pool, the lake, a ropes course, every sport imaginable, dance, drama, drumming, cooking, and so much more! I had an amazing time. And thank you again for helping me to go to one of the best places on Earth. I will be eternally grateful. Sincerely, Louis Tedeschi COLUMBIA September/October 2014

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Page 2 COLUMBIA September/October 2014 Israel’s Challenge — Its Right to Exist Amigour Safe BARRY ABELS, CJF and JCC Executive Director Rooms Provide a Editorial Note: This article was written for The Free Times in response to Safe Haven a previously published article about the lives lost in Gaza. JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA Contributor The “quiet” continues for now, and delegations have returned to Egypt to try once again to come to terms and halt the violence. It won’t be easy. Looking at the calm, smiling face of Avichai, While the technicalities of blockades and demilitarizing are thrown around you wouldn’t guess that just one week earlier, his home in Sderot was hit by a rocket while his and other details are argued, none of this addresses the root issues of this wife and children were inside. conflict: One side affirms life, and the other sacrifices their population in Thanks to a massive safe room construction the name of hatred and destruction. project from Amigour, The Jewish Agency One thing that remains constant throughout this conflict is that Hamas continues to hold for Israel’s housing subsidiary supported by the destruction of Israel as its ultimate goal—not peace with Israel, just NO Israel. The Federation, Avichai’s family had a secure place destruction of Israel is a major element in Hamas’s organizing charter. It would be a much to run to when the warning sirens sounded. simpler problem if it was just about the tragedy of body counts and lost lives. The impact Residents of Sderot, located less than a mile from Gaza, live under the constant threat of on the residents of Gaza is terrible and painful. This is what the world sees through most of rocket fire. When a siren blares, in the middle our media. I cry and mourn for those lives lost and the injured left behind. But I also know of the day or late at night, they have only 15 and see the damage and destruction in Israel from years of indiscriminate rocket fire. Yes, short seconds to run for safety. So in 2012, the current death toll is small on the Israeli side, but lives are just as disrupted, children are Amigour—Israel’s leading sheltered housing traumatized and everyone lives in fear of the next attack. My brother and his family live near provider—began retrofitting each apartment in Gaza, and running for shelter has been a continuous part of their lives for over 10 years. A the city with rocket-proof safe rooms. Today, neighboring family lives this tragedy every day. All three of their children lost limbs in a bus each of the 5,000 shelters is also is fortified bombing. Yet their story is not told. with 2.5-ton metal awnings that screen rooms from incoming rockets. A major issue for Hamas has been the blockades, used to stop weapons, war materials and Svetlana Fumin lives in an apartment militants, which bar free movement back and forth between Gaza and Israel or Gaza and Egypt. with her daughter, Evelina, whose bedroom Yet the very existence of tunnels used to raid and kidnap speaks loudly as to why Israel cannot also doubles as their safe room. When sirens trust an open border. The world and our media seem to have forgotten the terrible bombing recently sounded, the two olim from Russia of buses, restaurants and neighborhoods throughout Israel just a few years ago, killing and made it to their safe room just before a rocket maiming thousands Israelis: women, children, Jews, Muslims and Christians alike. It was only hit their apartment. They were so well- by erecting fences and checkpoints that this senseless killing was stopped. Open access across protected they initially didn’t realize that their borders cannot happen until there is a basis for trust, something the Hamas leadership does home had been hit. not exhibit. When Israel unilaterally left Gaza forcing Israeli citizens from their homes, it was Amigour’s assistance extends to post-attack reconstruction, removing debris, repairing hoped that this would help lead to a lasting peace. All it led to was years of indiscriminate windows and shutters and rebuilding their rocket attacks that have become more numerous, not only striking towns and cities near Gaza, homes. When a rocket hit a nearby Amigour-run but now ranging to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. public housing facility, destroying one family’s Israel will be a much more willing partner for peace when the leaders of Hamas worry more apartment, the organization immediately about their people and less about destroying Israel. How many millions of dollars could have booked the family into a hotel, where they will been used for education and economic development for the people of Gaza, if they were live until reconstruction is complete. not used to build tunnels for infiltration and destruction? How many children would still be Sderot once struggled to attract residents. Now, thanks to Amigour’s safe room and playing on playgrounds if rocket launchers had not been placed next door and fired at Israel? fortified building projects, all apartments are Israel has agreed to peace plan after peace plan, always to have them rejected by the occupied, the city is thriving and residents like Palestinian leadership. It is this attitude, along with continuing years of attacks that led to Amichai, Svetlana and Evelina can feel safe on this current incursion into Gaza. This current cease-fire must not be marred by more rockets the streets—and in their homes. or incursions. Both sides must listen and take small steps along the road to building trust and, most of all, affirming the value of lives of all peoples in the region. Only then can we hope for peace. As long as the goal of Hamas is to destroy Israel, both Israelis and Palestinians will pay the price. The Kahn JCC Meets the New South State Bank BARRY ABELS, CJF and JCC Executive Director Earlier this year it was determined that the JCC would be looking for a new banking relationship and also refinancing the outstanding debt from the construction of our current facility. Our Debt and Finance committee, chaired by Ben Arnold, met with several banks and requested proposals. Jane Brissette and Montague Laffitte from South State, formerly South Carolina Bank and Trust, put together an aggressive proposal that was clearly our best option. The refinance program provides for more manageable and flexible terms, and their banking services are offered at lower costs, providing savings to our operating budget. Committee Chair Ben Arnold, as well as JCC President Keith Babcock and the entire Debt and Finance committee, were very pleased with the outcome, and Pictured are (seated, L-R) closing attorney Beth the Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution at the June board meeting in Bernstein; JCC President Keith Babcock; Jane support of the new relationship. Beth Bernstein handled the closing transaction on Brissette, Senior Vice President for South State; August 4. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with South State. (standing, L-R) JCC Treasurer Harvey Helman; and Montague Laffitte, Central Region President for Pictured above are Keith Babcock and Jane Brissette, signing closing documents South State Bank

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Continued from page 1 Meet the CJF Coming to the JCC Lyssa has served on many community and State Boards, such as Workshop Theatre and Board:JOSHUA The Family Connection, and has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for McDUFFIE Keep the Midlands Beautiful. She presently In this regular feature of the Jewish News, is on the Board of Directors for 701 Center members of the Columbia Jewish Federation for Contemporary Arts, the Jewish Historical Board of Directors will tell us about themselves. Society of SC, the Columbia Jewish Federation, This month’s featured member is Vice President and the Katie and Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Dr. Joshua McDuffie, who has been a CJF Board Center, serving as a Vice President. She is the Member since 2008. co-chair of the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission. Community Leadership: I currently serve as Lyssa has served Columbia’s Jewish the Vice-President of Federation, since 2013. Community in many different capacities over I served as Secretary in 2011 and 2012, and I the years. She was the Columbia Chapter of chaired the Community Relations Committee Hadassah President for three terms and was the from 2009-2011. I served on the Federation COUPONING WORKSHOP recipient of The Lil Zalin Young Leader Award. Executive Director Search Committee in 2012, Do you look at the deals and wonder what it all means? Does She served as a Columbia Jewish Federation and when we weren’t successful in finding a CVS baffle you? Learning how to save money you already have is Women’s Campaign Chair and was recognized amazing! Master Couponer Jenny Martin’s family will show you new Executive Director for Federation, I co- how her family went from spending $650 a month on groceries with the Columbia’s Young Leadership Award. chaired the Joint Executive Director Search to only spending $250 a month. What would you do with an She has been on the Beth Shalom Synagogue Committee that hired our current Joint extra $400 each month? Come to this workshop and learn how to Board of Directors and helped to chair the Executive Director, Barry Abels, to lead both drastically cut your budget on your shopping expenses. The class Centennial Celebration of the Synagogue. Lyssa Federation and the JCC. is 3-3.5 hours long and cover basic and advanced topics. $10. initiated the Jewish Cultural Arts Program and Committee for the Jewish Community Center Jewish News: What’s your day job, and how did Thursday, September 4th at 6:30 pm in 1999 and was the chair of this Committee you get there? Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center for over 10 years. This program was responsible 306 Flora Drive | Columbia, SC | 787-2023 for bringing in many national and local Jewish In my day job, I work as a defense contractor. performers to Columbia and helping to launch I manage real estate in Southwest and Central and maintain the very popular Jewish Film Asia for the United States Air Forces Central Jenny Martin, of Southern Savers, Festival. Lyssa was one of the early members of Command. I am a part of the Installations to Teach Class at JCC The Jewish Historical Society of SC and served Directorate, which includes civil engineering on the Executive Board. Lyssa also helped to and contracting. It’s very interesting work, and I have had the opportunity to travel abroad in If you’re an experienced coupon-clipper develop the Columbia Holocaust Education or a wannabe extreme couponer, mark your Commission and the Holocaust Remembered support of our overseas operations and to work Exhibit, which has been toured by over 3,000 SC with a lot of outstanding people. calendar for Thursday, September 4 at school children. 6:30 pm. Jenny Martin of the famed Lyssa’s work as a therapist and teacher over JN: How did you make your way to the CJF Southern Savers website will be at the the years has paralleled her work as an artist. Board? Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community She has won awards for her watercolors, clay A family member who served on the Federation Center for one night only, leading one of sculpture, and photography. She is a member Board suggested that I consider serving. Since her highly popular couponing workshops. of the SC Watercolor Society and has exhibited I was still a fairly new resident of Columbia at “I started couponing with a lot of her work at Piccolo Spoleto, as well as in art the time, I decided that it would be a great way skepticism but was quickly saving our galleries in Columbia and Charleston. She for me to get involved in the Jewish Community family over $400 a month!” says Jenny. has paintings that are part of the permanent and that service would be one way that I could “Now my goal is to make couponing easy collections at Katie and Irwin Kahn Jewish make a contribution. I grew up in a family that and fun for everyone to save at least 50% Community Center and Beth Shalom Synagogue. was very involved in Jewish community life; Her Hamsa Watercolor Blessing paintings can my parents set a great example for me. Now I off their household needs every week.” be found throughout the US. Her artwork want to give back to the community to make Everyone is invited to this extensive can presently been seen at The Art Mecca of sure that children growing up in Columbia today workshop that will guide you through Charleston. have the same opportunities that I had and that the basics, leading all the way through Lyssa is married to Jonathan Harvey. He is an we have an environment in which Judaism and advanced couponing techniques. Grocery attorney in Columbia. They have been married Jewish life can continue to thrive. store sales cycles, CVS Extra Care Bucks, for 37 years. They met at the University of and getting the most from your coupons Georgia... and are Bulldogs fans (except when JN: What’s going on at the Federation? will all be covered, along with much more. they are being Carolina Gamecock fans)! They There is a $10 fee payable online at www. are very proud of their three married children, There’s always so much going on with Eden and Matt Hendricks, Jordane and Joe Federation and in the Columbia Jewish southernsavers.com or at the door. Lotts, and Dr. Kyle and Grace Harvey. They community! Barry’s been putting together a Plan to arrive early; Jenny’s workshops have three adorable grandchildren: Jackson, great professional staff, and we’ve got a terrific are often sold out! Hannah, and Jonathan. volunteer board. Federation provides resources Lyssa will be honored on October 30 at to support many of the programs offered by 6:30 pm at the Katie and Irwin Kahn Jewish different organizations in the community, and Community Center at the Distinguished there’s really a lot going on, especially this It’s happening at the JCC! Service Award Presentation, the theme of time of year. The annual Distinguished Service which is Circles of Gratitude. Says Lyssa, Award banquet will be coming up soon, and of Sept 4 at 6:30 pm | Couponing Workshop course Campaign will be kicking off. Last year’s Sept 14 at 2 pm | Card Making & Story time “Being aware of the presence of good in the Campaign was very successful, and this year’s world and in your own life comes as a Blessing. will build on that success. I’m also very excited Sept 21 at 3 pm | Klezmer Concert I am conscious of my life as a gift. I am a Sept 22, 23 & 24 | Honey for members guardian of this gift. My desire is to show love, about the Young Adult Division, which seems to kindness and gratitude in return.” be growing and continuing to be successful. Sept 27 at the Okra Strut: Color Me Calendar Oct 5 at 2 pm | Deck the Hut JN: What’s the best part of our community? Oct 8 at Day at the J: Kid Sukkah Building I like that even though there’s a lot going on; Oct 13 1 pm - 4 pm | Game On! in Sukkah Columbia is still basically a small-town. No matter where you are, you always seem to Oct 14 5:30 pm - 7 pm | Happy Hour run into family, friends and neighbors, and Oct 15 10 am - 11 am | Toddler Sukkah Party this feels especially true within the Columbia Nov 2 - 7 | Jewish Book Festival Jewish Community. It’s very tight-knit, but it’s Nov 9 at 6 pm | Voices of the Generations also welcoming and hospitable. Our community really has a lot of opportunities to get involved Early November | Judaism 101 and to be a part of everything that’s going on. I’ve had a really great experience being involved here so far. Page 6 COLUMBIA September/October 2014

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CHERYL NAIL CJF Community Relations Director Rosh Hashanah Card Craft Start Year 5775 with your friends at PJ and PJ Library Story Reading Library®! Columbia’s PJ Library® Program is Sunday, September 14 at 2 pm gearing up for a year of fun story times and activities: At The Katie & Irwin Kahn JCC • Partnering with the Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center, we All ages are invited to this fun will kick off the year a little early, reading Apple Days and making a Rosh make-and-take craft afternoon; HaShanah card on Sunday, September we’ll show you how to make fun 14 (see ad to the right for details). • Be sure to stop by the Kids’ Sukkah Rosh Hashanah cards for your at the JCC during Sukkot to enjoy family and friends and learn about favorite PJ Library® titles. • Throughout the fall and spring, we the holiday with a PJ Library book. look forward to working with the local All materials are provided. Please synagogues to bring PJ Library® books and activities to their children’s RSVP at the JCC Front Desk so programs. we have enough card bases for • Beginning in September, enrolled families will receive PJ Library® everyone! emails, containing program announcements, as well as ideas for FREE for JCC Members how to use the books you receive at $5 for the Community home. PJ Library provides age-appropriate books to Jewish children in Columbia each month as a gift from CJF. To enroll your child, visit pjlibrary.org or call 787-2023 x.211.

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Changes for Be on the lookout for new programs involving JFS! Remember that Jewish Family Service the New Year has transportation LANEY COHEN, JFS Director Flu shot clinic at the JCC for our community’s seniors. September 11th and October 7th, Autumn is my sponsored by JFS. Call Laney @ 787-2023 ext 220 favorite season. for more information about We get to Culture Bus October 26th the “Senior Transportation Network.” celebrate Rosh Contact Laney at JFS for more info! HaShanah. We This program is funded in part get to ask for Volunteers are needed! with a grant from forgiveness and Please contact Laney if interested. BJH Foundation for senior services. atone during Yom Kippur. We eat in our Sukkah and remember a time when our people were without home. We celebrate Shemini Atzeret, and we also celebrate the Torah, as we start over during Simchat Torah. JELF It’s the time of year that great reflection is had – remembrance of our struggles; JELF Names remembrance of who we are as a people; Jenna Leopold Shulman www.jelf.org and a remembrance of those who we as Executive Director have lost. It is also a time for us to start new and to ask forgiveness so that we The Jewish Educational may be better people in the New Year. Loan Fund (JELF) is pleased The question, then, becomes HOW do we to announce that Jenna become better people? During my own Leopold Shulman has become personal reflection as I thought about its executive director. Shulman will lead Jewish? this article, I started to brainstorm. What the 125 year old non-profit organization, makes us change? IS change good? How do which provides interest-free loans to Need Money For College? we, as people, change to make this world Jewish students in need who are pursuing that we are in a better place? This is the secondary education. JELF, which list that I have decided to commit to in maintains a 98 percent repayment rate, You may be eligible for an this upcoming New Year: serves students from Georgia, Florida, VA interest-free, need-based North Carolina, South Carolina and loan for your “last dollars” to attend undergrad, grad 1. Pick up a new hobby. Virginia. NC 2. Overcome my fears. “For many Jewish students in need, school, professional and/or 3. Get out of my comfort zone. JELF has become an essential partner SC vocational school. in meeting the increasingly higher costs 4. Identify my personal blindspots. Loan Application Dates: 5. Stay focused with to-do lists. of secondary education,” Shulman said. GA “As the demand grows for JELF loans, we March 1 – April 30 6. Acknowledge my flaws. September 1 – 30 7. Get into action. must widen our base of financial support 8. Learn from people who inspire me. within our communities, while continuing 9. Let go of the past. to operate an efficient and customer- 10. Show kindness to those around me. focused organization.” FL For more info and to For more information about JELF, please call 770-396-3080 or visit apply, visit I believe that if I work on the above, my www.jelf.org attitude, perceptions, and relationships www.jelf.org with others will change – and that’s okay. Todah Rabah! JFS/JCC Culture Bus is Back! STEVE SOLOMON: CANNOLI, LATKES & GUILT Steve Solomon, the author and star of the three-time award-winning, critically acclaimed show “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy,” now brings you “CANNOLI, LATKES & GUILT...the therapy continues,” Steve’s newest project. Almost a million people throughout the United States and overseas have laughed till they cried at Steve’s hit shows: “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy,” “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m STILL in Therapy” and his hilarious holiday show, “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m HOME for the Holidays”—(Steve’s personal favorite!) This show is a laugh-filled fest of everybody you know, have known and some you’d want to forget but can’t! Each of the twenty or so characters is brought to life by Steve using the voices and dialects that they possess in real life. Close your eyes and you’d swear there were two or three people chatting on stage; all these people are created by JFS would like to thank Camp Gesher for comedian and master dialectician Steve Solomon. the generous donation from their food Prepare to laugh, prepare to cry, and prepare to spend a wonderful side splitting drive. Ay-ze-yofi! evening with Steve and his wacky family and friends. You’ll leave remembering why you left home in the first place; dinner for thirty five…one toilet and no plunger! October 26th! Tickets are $50 each and include transportation to Charlotte. We will have brunch at Phil’s Deli. Tickets are limited. Please contact Laney Cohen @ 787-2023 ext 220 for more info! Page 8 COLUMBIA September/October 2014 Katie & Irwin Kahn JCC Jewish Community Center Shake up Sukkot with the JCC! LAURIE SLACK Jewish Programs Director It still feels like Summer, but the High Holidays are just around the corner, and we at the JCC are getting ready with our Sukkot plans. We hope that you’ll take a few minutes out of your busy schedules to come to one (or more!) of our programs. Everything we do is for the community, and I always like to remind folks that everyone is welcome regard- less of religious affiliation, knowledge of Judaism, community involvement, or age. The JCC is for YOU! Let us supplement your Sukkot celebrations this year with some of our easy, pop-in activities. On Sunday, October 5 at 2:00 pm we invite families to come and help us “Deck the Hut”; we’ll be making decorations and adorning the JCC Sukkah with our handicrafts. We’ll also hold a scavenger hunt around the JCC to help us remember (or get familiar!) with all the special objects that we see during the High Holidays. If your child will be attending “Day at the J” during Sukkot, they’ll help build a kid-sized Sukkah that will live in the JCC’s lobby during the holiday. We’ll fill the children’s Sukkah with cozy pillows and great PJ Library books, so be sure to drop by and enjoy our cozy spot to read and relax. Last year we started a tradition of celebrating with Appletinis in the Sukkah, and I’ll be serving as your bartender once again on Tuesday, October 14 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. We’ll have music and drinks (non-alcoholic appletinis will be available, too!) so bring a friend, shake the lulav, and enjoy some time in our festive Sukkah. For our families with toddler-aged children, we’ll be having a Toddler Sukkah Party on Wednesday, October 15 from 10:00 to 11:00 am. This will be a parent-child playgroup with guided activities as well as free play. We’ll play games, sing songs, enjoy a PJ Li- brary story and shake our sillies out in the JCC Sukkah. Lastly, we’ll be holding a supply drive for the Family Shelter the week before and the week of Sukkot with Jewish Family Services. While we enjoy residing in our temporary shelter for a week, it is important to remember those who do not have a permanent place to stay on a long-term basis. We will be collecting paper goods, trash bags, hygiene prod- ucts, and more at the JCC; a full list of supplies the Family Shelter needs can be found on our website. Please drop off your donations in the JCC lobby. I hope everyone has a sweet new year, and I hope that the JCC is able to share some our sweetness with you and your family in 5775. All our programs are for YOU. You are the reason we exist, and you are the reason we strive every day to be a friendly, welcoming, and open hub for the Jewish community. L’shanah Tovah to you and yours, and I’ll see you at the Center!

1st Annual JCC Kite Festival Sunday, September 7 | 11:30 am - 4:30 pm

Join us for family fun, fabulous prizes, FREE beverages, and a food truck rodeo! FREE entry with the donation of a non-perishable food item.

The first 50 kids get FREE kites! Beth Shalom and Tree of Life Religious School students who come to the Festival AFTER Religious School will also receive a FREE kite!

Sponsored by the American Kitefliers Association & the Kahn JCC, benfiting Jewish Family Service & Harvest Hope Food Bank.

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MAY YOUR NEW YEAR BE GOOD AND SWEE

Page 10 COLUMBIA September/October 2014 JAWS Voices of the Generations LINDSAY AGOSTINI DEBRA RUBIN know she had survived,” Acquatics Director, JCC NJJN Bureau Chief/Middlesex said Kohner. “My mother said perhaps her old The JAWS swim team had Like many children of Holocaust survivors, fiancé.” an impressive season with Julie Kohner feels she has a responsibility to Unfortunately, a 2-3 record. As winners of remind younger generations of the horrors of Hanna could only Columbia’s Swim League the Shoa. recall that he lived on Small Division last year, JAWS However, in Kohner’s case, that sense of Sunset Boulevard in was bumped up to the Middle responsibility is heightened by the knowledge Los Angeles, but had Division for the 2014 summer season. JAWS that in 1953, in an era when many survivors forgotten the house victories were against The Members Club of resisted talking about the Holocaust — or number. Wildewood & Woodcreek and Greenview. felt they were discouraged from doing so “If you know Sunset Boulevard, you know Rarely does a team that is moved up in a — her mother, Hanna Kohner, shared with how big it is,” said Kohner. “It would have been division post a win in the first year, and millions of people her story of surviving four a miracle for someone to find my father.” JAWS won twice! concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Yet that letter reached Los Angeles, where Additionally, for the second year in a “My mother on May 27, 1953, was the first it was put in another envelope and sent to row, the JAWS swim team was recognized Holocaust survivor to have the story of her Kohner’s father, who was then serving in the by CSL’s Kids Kick Cancer fundraiser life told on national television, when she United States Army. for having the highest percentage of appeared on This Is Your Life,” said Kohner. “As soon as he got that letter he set out to participants kicking for KKC, which benefits For 19 years, Julie Kohner has been find her; they were reunited in Amsterdam,” Camp Kemo. Fifty-nine of our 95 swimmers touring the country, telling her mother’s said Kohner. The two married and in 1946 kicked laps in the pool and raised over story and her parents’ tale of “love moved to Los Angeles. $1800. Congratulations to our biggest conquering evil” as part of a multimedia Hanna Kohner died in 1990, Walter Kohner in fundraisers, Emma and Amy Gendil and teaching experience that includes watching 1996. Cate Lees, and thank you to all participants that landmark TV show featuring her mother. Barry Abels, Executive Director of the and donors! She will present her program, Voices Columbia Jewish Federation, said he wanted Finally, the JAWS team would like to of the Generations, at The Katie & Irwin to bring Kohner to the JCC because “I recognize its corporate sponsors. Without Kahn Jewish Community Center on Sunday, saw Kohner in Texas when she first began our sponsors, our team would not be November 9. speaking and found her mother’s story to be possible. Kohner characterizes her mother’s life riveting.” as “the story of survival in a small town in The program at the Katie & Irwin Kahn JAWS Swimmers Thank Czechoslovakia” eight miles from the German Jewish Community Center will begin at 6:00 Dr. Debbie Greenhouse border, where her mother and father, pm. For information, call 803-787-2023. Palmetto Pediatric & Adolescent Clinic Walter, were childhood sweethearts. For more information on Kohner, visit her [After a seven-year separation that website, www.voicesofthegenerations.com. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Dr. included Hanna’s arrest], Hanna was Richard Boyd Orthodontics liberated by American troops from This article was excerpted with permission from Groucho’s Deli Mauthausen in Austria, “One of the soldiers the New Jersey Jewish News of United Jewish Walker White Mechanical asked her if there was anyone he could send Communities of MetroWest NJ. Photo courtesy of word to to let them Julie Kohner. Chabad CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA FAMILY Save The Date! PRESENTS... Escape From Sobibor X X Thursday, November 20

FAMILY SUKKOT FESTIVAL Philip Bialowitz

Children’s Program: Adults: Save The Date! Escape Fr7:00o mpm: Evening So Servicesbib or 6:00 pm: Story & Dancing 7:15 pm: Dancing with the Torah 6:30 pm: Delicious Dinner 8:00 pm: Fabulous Deli Buffet & Thursday, November 20 BBQ SUKKAH MUSIC Open Bar!

Thursday, October 16 At the Chabad-Aleph House JUMPING CASTLE LULAV & ETROG FACEPAINTING Philip Bialowitz TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 5:30-7:00 PM THE EPSTEIN HOME 6338 GOLDBRANCH RD $12 ADMISSION $50 FAMILY NO CHARGE! RSVP to [email protected] RSVP by Thursday, October 12 Call: 467-3456 or email [email protected]

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TREE OF LIFE Tree of Life Congregation Hands-On Experiential Learning! Holidays, History, Family-Life,RECIPE FOR Israel, THE Hebrew, and Beyond! Schedule of High Holiday Services TREE OF LIFE RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur Cooking Time: 28 Sundays, 4 hours each, beginning September 7

Hands-On Experiential Learning! Saturday September 20 Selichot Reception and Service beginning at 8:30pm Servings: Generations of HappyHolidays, Jewish History, Kids Family-Life, Israel, Hebrew, and Beyond! Wednesday September 24 Rosh HaShanah Eve Cooking Time: 28 Sundays, 4 hours each, beginning September 7 8:00 pm Rosh HaShanah Evening Service Ingredients: Students, Parents, Teachers, Tradition, Shabbat, Matzah Balls, Chummus, Yiddish, Thursday September 25 Rosh HaShanah Day Latkes, Music,Servings: Hamentaschen, Generations ofIsrael, Happy JewishNatalie Kids Portman, Hebrew, Prayer, Siddurim, Candles, 10:00 am Rosh HaShanah Morning Service Dreidels, Songs, T'fillah, Camp, History, Kiddush, B'nai Mitzvah, Golda Meir, Hora, Rabbi Hillel, 10:00 am Young Children’s Service thru Grade 1 Ingredients: Students, Parents, Teachers, Tradition, Shabbat, Matzah Balls, Chummus, Yiddish, Hannah Senesh, Tallit, Torah, Passover Candy, Pastrami, Chanukah, Knishes, The Big Nosh™, 11:00 am Children’s Service Grades 2-5 Latkes, Music, Hamentaschen, Israel, Natalie Portman, Hebrew, Prayer, Siddurim, Candles, 2:30 pm Family Service Megillah, BritDreidels, Milah, Songs, Adam T'fillah, Sandler, Camp, History,Ahava, Kiddush Zac Ef,ron, B'nai EitzMitzvah, Chayim, Golda Meir, Matisy Hora,ahu, Rabbi Sandy Hillel, Koufax, Hank Hannah Senesh, Tallit, Torah, Passover Candy, Pastrami, Chanukah, Knishes, The Big Nosh™, 4:00 pm Tashlich (meet at Temple) Greenberg, Shofar, Tikun Olam, NFTY, Moses, King David, Jerusalem, El-Al, URJ, JCC, Tel Aviv, Megillah, Brit Milah, Adam Sandler, Ahava, Zac Efron, Eitz Chayim, Matisyahu, Sandy Koufax, Hank Friday September 26 7:30 pm Shabbat Shuvah Service Anne Frank,Greenberg, Wolf Blitzer, Shofar, Matzah, Tikun Olam, Magen NFTY, Davi Moses,d, King Mezuzot, David, Jerusalem, Kippot, 10El-Al, Commandments, URJ, JCC, Tel Aviv, Mitzvot Sunday September 28 Kever Avot/ Cemetery Memorial Ceremony Anne Frank, Wolf Blitzer, Matzah, Magen David, Mezuzot, Kippot, 10 Commandments, Mitzvot Friday October 3 Yom Kippur Eve Cooking Instructions: Place all ingredients in a slow cooker. Set the dial on "journey," low heat, so Cooking Instructions: Place all ingredients in a slow cooker. Set the dial on "journey," low heat, so 8:00 pm Yom Kippur Evening/Kol Nidre Service that the ingredients blend together. Stir occasionally, always keeping an eye on the pot. that the ingredients blend together. Stir occasionally, always keeping an eye on the pot. Saturday October 4 Yom Kippur Day AND registerAND your register child, your child,ages ages0-18, 0-18, for for Tree Tree of of Life Religious Religious School! School! We offer We Family offer Family 10:00 am Yom Kippur Morning Service Life Education,Life Education, Adult Education, Adult Education, a caring a caring and and professional staff, staff, and so and much so more! much more! 10:00 am Young Children’s Service thru Grade 1 Make sureMake that sure TOL that RS TOL is partRS is partof your of your fami family'sly's lifelife today! today! Then Then RELAX RELAX and enjoy and the enjoy the 11:00 am Children’s Service Grades 2-5 delicious fruits of your labor: a proud and happy Jewish child! 12:30 pm Study Session delicious fruits of your labor: a proud and happy Jewish child! 1:45 pm Family Service 3:00 pm Yom Kippur Afternoon Service 4:30 pm Yizkor/Memorial & Neilah/Concluding Service Followed by a Congregational Break-the-Fast

Childcare Childcare will be provided for the following services:

Wednesday, September 24 Rosh HaShanah Eve 7:45 pm - end of service Thursday, September 25 Rosh HaShanah Day 9:45 am - 12:15 pm

Friday, October 3 Yom Kippur Eve 7:45 pm - end of service “Start children off on the way they should go Saturday, October 4 Yom Kippur Day 9:45 am - 12:15 pm and when they are old they will not depart from it” Proverbs 22:6 3:00 pm - end of Service

Oneg Rosh HaShanah 9/24, Temple Teens in Grades 7-12 upstairs in the youth lounge. “Start children off on the way they should go

For More Information about High Holyday services at TOL, and when they are old they will not depart from it” Proverbs 22:6 please call the Temple Office at 803-787-2182.

COFTY We Are COFTY! The Columbia branch of the North American Federation of Temple Youth!

Our Temple Youth Group, or TYG for short, is up and running and raring to go at Tree of Life Congregation for the 2014-2015 School Year. Leadership, Jewish Music and Spirituality, Camping, Tikkun Olam-Social Action (making the world a better place), and much more are all part of who we are! We connect through a variety of social and informal educational programs with teens in Columbia, all over the south, and BEYOND! For more info about TYG, and NFTY programming for grades 7-12, or if you are just looking for a responsible babysitter for your younger child, call COFTY TYG Advisor Abby Magaro at 803-528-4366, or contact Micah Feinstein at [email protected].

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Jewish Singles 21-50+ Meet and Greet Wine and Cheese Tasting October 2014 More information to follow soon